Saving disk space with aperture, help please?

Ok, let me start by saying I am using a Macbook Pro 17inch model, with a 120gb HD. I just recently switched this summer to Mac over from PC. Now iPhoto has not been very satisfying to me, so that prompted me to buy Aperture. When I used my PC, which I still use now since it is a powerful desktop that I customized and has all my main hard drives hooked up to, I was used to using Google's Picasa software for organizing and searching my photo database. Picasa was very good for me, and I really wish that they had a Mac version of it, but since they don't, I need something to fill that need on my Macbook Pro. As I wrote before, iPhoto does not exactly satisfy me, so I would prefer to find an alternative to it. I am hoping that Aperture can do this, but I am having trouble so far.
Now I only need Aperture for its organizing and database qualities, which I am very impressed by. I do not plan to use it at all for image editing, I leave that to PS, and I don't particularly like the way it creates so many files for each photo and such. My main problem that I am coming across is that when I import my entire photo library (which I have already organized into a very convinient folder heirarchy) into Aperture, it literally doubles the size of my photo library by creating the huge Aperture Library file, and all of the project files within that file. Now I wouldn't mind this too much if it was on my desktop where I have plenty of hard drives to absorb these huge files created, but my desktop is PC for now and can't use Aperture, I plan to get the new Mac Pro next year when my budget can allow for it, but even still, I am not happy with the idea of creating a huge Aperture Library file that essentially doubles the size of my entire photo archive.
Now I noticed this huge file is due to the huge Project files created within the Aperture Library file. Unfortunately, to my knowledge and my trial and error this far, it is impossible to import photos into Aperture without importing them as projects. Am I correct in noting that I can not simply use Aperture for just its organization or database tools? I was really looking forward to getting aperture, but I can not afford to double the size of my entire photo archive on my laptops hard drive, because it is only 120gb and will not be able to sustain a growing photo library like this, especially if it grows at double the size for every photo imported.
Now I do own plenty of external hard drives, and am aware that I can direct Aperture to create its library file on an external hard drive, but it is not too convinient to have to have an external hard drive connected to my laptop every time I want to use Aperture, and not very cost-efficient to have to dedicate a whole external HD just for Aperture's library file, plus I have doubts to how fast the program would run if it is running my library off of an external hard drive.
So in the end, do I need to find another piece of software from an outside company to suit my needs for an image database program? Is it possible to import all my photos into aperture without creating any project files? Please anyone with suggestions for what could help me, please do respond, and thank you in advance for any help.

Thanks for such a quick reply. What you wrote is helpful, and I did consider that at one point... but to go that route would require me to commit completely to using Aperture only for accessing my photos, and would never be able to use other programs to access my photos, I would have to do it all through Aperture, which is not all that bad, but I would like the freedom to access my photos from any program, or from simple folder view. I do see that in the long run it will help conserve HD space, but I really don't like having to commit completely to using only Aperture.
Is it really too much to ask for to have Aperture support maintaining my files in their original location while referencing them in its own library? I don't think that's too much to ask for, every other photo management software is capable of doing this, and at great speeds as well. Even iphoto doesn't create copies of every single item, Google's Picasa on the PC side is EXTREMELY fast and does exactly what I need it to do... I only hope that someone from Apple understands the needs of people like me, as I'm sure I'm not the only one out here who wishes Aperture could work the way I am describing, and hopefully Apple can do something to appeal to this group of people like myself.

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